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How using a DISC Profiling System Can Benefit Your Organisation
A DISC Profiling System identifies the characteristics of individuals as being dominance, influence, steadiness or compliance. Dominance is the person's ability to get their point across in a challenging environment, which ranges from Passive to Aggressive. Influence is a their ability to persuade others, people rating high are friendly and suited to customer service or sales. With Steadiness, they like to remain in one job and don't like a lot of change or variety, this is a good trait for data entry jobs. Compliance is a person's ability to follow rules, they are a stickler for regulations and guidelines and have little flexibility. The benefits of DISC Profiling Systems follow.

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Data Collection? Save Yourself the Trouble.
Why pay your consultant or internal project team to spend up front time collecting data that will only burn up hours (and fees) and inhibit the solution that you so sorely need? The time to collect data is during the assessment of the solution, not during the assessment of the problem.
Build Bench Strength through Personality Assessments
The value of any personality assessment comes in using the insights it provides along the entire continuum of a career. The test itself should decipher an employee's underlying needs with emphases on sales rep hiring, development, opportunities for growth, behavioral coaching, team building, conflict resolution, succession planning and diversity training.
Risk Assessment & Analysis Techniques
Risk assessment is an area of concern for all senior executives, but many mid-sized enterprises do not have the skills, processes, or tools to effectively mitigate risks. Instead of reactively ‘fire-fighting’ and dealing with issues as they arise, consider adding simple risk assessment & analysis exercises to your project planning process. Download & customize Demand Metric’s Risk Assessment Tool, Risk Mitigation Checklist, and Risk Analysis (Fishbone) Tool, and add to your skills arsenal.
You Must be the Owner?
"You must be the owner"? That question has been asked of every employee at the store...except of our teens. WOW what does THAT say about our hiring, training, and keeping of our team? It means we looked for something extra in our potential team members...attitude. And that is something that doesn't show up on a resume under education or past jobs. To start, we did it by asking interesting questions in the interview and also using a personality assessment valuing each team members "natural" gifts. To keep them growing and glowing about our place, we've stayed actively involved in learning, communicating, experimenting, and adventuring! We've used advertisements but tweaked the words

Are You Leading a TOP Team?
As a leader you are only as good as the team you lead. A TOP Team is a team performing at: “Team Optimal Performance”. Find out how to become a TOP Team and take the Leadership and Team Reality Check Up.
4 Killer Tips for Building Effective Teams
People in every workplace talk about building the team, working as a team, and my team, but few understand how to create the experience of team work or how to develop an effective team. This article will help you do exactly that.
Leaders Go First
The CLEMMER Group did an extensive assessment with a divisional manager to diagnose the strengths and weaknesses within his division and implement a major change and improvement process. Our assessment report showed that the problems in the division's customer service, quality, and productivity could be traced to one cause - the management team was dysfunctional. They were technicians and managers, not leaders. Their individual and collective leadership was weak. After reviewing the report with the division manager, we planned an off-site retreat with the management team to review the report and establish action plans.

Pathways and Pitfalls to Leading Teams
The following Outstanding Teams Checklist outlines the key elements of top performing teams (and organizations). Use this to assess yourself and your team. Even better, get your team to do this assessment.
The 360 Degree Trap
Many organizations use a 360 Degree Assessment to measure the effectiveness of leaders. I have always been a proponent of this method as it provides vital information required to improve leadership and build trust. There is a potential trap in this method if the assessment is strongly linked to compensation.
10 Reasons - Don't Worry When Sales Candidates Don't Take the Test
We instruct clients to have their sales candidates take the Sales Candidate assessment very early in the recruiting process. It's the first step after the client receives their resumes. Clients carefully spell out exactly how the entire process will work and explain that the assessment is simply the first step. Recent statistics show that only 34% of the candidates are taking the assessment without additional prompts. Isn't that awful? Maybe - let's explore it further. We should consider that the following ten scenarios are all possible reasons why candidates fail to complete the assessment:
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